[Christian Engineer Mass]

"It remains unclear whether the redirection was intentional" lol.

Read carefully.

[ronnie raygun]

It was done with the blessing of our beloved leaders

[givemELL]

Gee, April was a VERY long time ago, ....in the meanwhile??

[KoRn]

To KNOW why this happened, you would need LOTS of information. Obviously routers routed traffic that way. Why?

[NativeNewYorker]

[_Jim]

Nearly 15 percent ... Internet traffic ... was briefly redirected through computer servers in China in April

Does anybody know if China has an over-capacity of fiber to even HANDLE the excess traffic (me thinks not) into and out of the REST of the WORLD? (THIS would also mean that a LOT of routers iin the ROW would have had to have their routing changed ... again, doubtful IMNSHO.)

Note: The term used is 'computer servers', not routers (WHICH are optimized to pass traffic swiftly via implementation in ASICs or FPGAs vs a 'computer' which would have to move 'data' internally via the execution of specific instructions).

[Cvengr]

2 of my favorite texts are Transaction Processing by Gray and Network Flows by those 3 guys (Ahuia et al.)

Know any more recent good ones in that same league?

[blueplum]

from the White House: crickets

[zeugma]

All web traffic should be encrypted. It would put an end to this type of childishness. The trouble is, then the governments of the world, most notably our own beloved Fedgov would find it more difficult to snoop on us. There is no real reason why any internet traffic is still in the clear except that governments don't like privacy.

[ShadowAce]

[martin_fierro]

That explains why my FR post that day looked like this:

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[NeverForgetBataan]

When are we going to realize that even if this was not an
intentional act by the Chi-Coms, we have enough others that
we KNOW were.

These are probes. The electronic version of us overflying the Soviet Union with the U2.

The Japanese had agents in Hawaii to size up the defenses of Pearl Harbor before that disaster.

This is the same kind of stuff.

[GOPJ]

Is this connected to the missile / airplane / whatever / in California?

[GOPJ]

ping

[dfwgator]

I guess that explains why all the porn sites started looking like this